Lacking familiarity with the source text: Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s “The Visit”, I’m spared the task of writing comparative criticism.
The action in this interpretation simplified, being driven by the tension between the father and his two younger offspring, who also double as the chorus. This meta-duplicity works to expound upon the already present tension between generations, as having first ignored their father, the children are then allowed to ridicule him without the possibility of being overheard. Watching the father, who already faces existential death through the oncoming of modernity and the wrath of capitalism also sit in silence and suffer his demonic children is really quick powerful.
Makeup, lighting and stage design are all equally simple and imposing, proving a production needs little more than dedicated actors, and an effective script to affect the audience.
演出場地：Changee中山